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everyone. welcome to "sunday morning futures," i'm maria bartiromo. today, election integrity, ensuring an honest and fair election with 51 days until election day. we are digging into the most important issue for republicans as the final countdown begins for election 2024. coming up, florida governor ron desantis with plans to the crack down on fraud in a new election integrity plan for florida as voter rolls are being cleaned up across the country. and the pennsylvania supreme court rules undated and misdated mail-in ballots will not be counted as early voting is about to begin this week in the keystone state. coming up, former speaker of the house, newt gingrich, on the race, the debate and whether anything changed after the trump-harris showdown in philly. then, joe biden stuns as he suggests even he'll be voting for trump as the president dons an icon kick trump red hat with firefighters in pennsylvania and again as he boards air force one this week.

coming up, arkansas senator tom cotton with a status check and a look at the candidates' policy plans as the impact of biden's wide open border raises questions with about whether illegals are registering to vote. >> if you're in this country illegally, if you're in this country and your temporary protective status was given to you by corrupt politicians, you have to go. it's not any more complicated than that. maria: the battle moving through capitol hill as well with speaker mike johnson trying to wrangle members to safeguard the election while funding government ahead of this month's budget deadline. congressman bryan steil and cory mills on the save act and why some republicans will not agree to attach it to a continuing resolution. then kamala easter running mate, tim walz, and his policies in minnesota. 30-year minnesota resident and former nfl sideline analyst michelle tata foia on life under tim walz's minnesota -- michele

tafoya. it's all right here, right now on "sunday morning futures." ♪ ♪ maria: and we begin this sunday morning with the final kickoff to election 2024 as early voting begins in pennsylvania this upcoming week and general election ballots are now in the mail in alabama and soon north carolina amidst new evidence this week of the devastating impact the biden-harris agenda has had on americans. new inflation data shows overall prices are up 19.7 % while real wages are down nearly 2 2 in large part due to the massive $7 trillion in spending by the biden-harris administration over the last three and a half years. the climate change agenda spending spree sending the national debt skyrocketing to over $35 if trillion which amounts to the about $270,000 owed by each u.s. taxpayer. the open border arguably the

most impactful misstep of the biden-harris agenda with 10 is million illegals crossing into america in three and a half years including over 1 million single adults just from the countries of venezuela, haiti, china and russia. now vice president harris is doubling down on her economic and immigration agenda with plans to hike the corporate tax rate and capital gains tax by 7% while also taxing unrealized gains at 25% starting with taxpayers whose net worth is $1000 million or more -- 100 million which could also a hit family businesses. harris is also pushing to provide a pathway to citizenship for the estimated 14 million people currently living in the u.s. illegally. joining me now with more in this "sunday morning futures" exclusive is arkansas senator tom cotton who sits on the senate intelligence, armed services and judiciary committees. senator, it's good to see you this morning. thanks so much for being here. >> thank you, maria.

good to be on with you. maria: i want to get your take on the status check of where we are with 51 days before election day. and let me start with a sound bite from that debate last week and kamala harris making this statement. watch. >> and as of today, there is not one member of the united states military who is in active duty in a a combat zone in any war zone around the world, the first time this century. maria: senator, i guess the fact checkers took the night off. your reaction. >> yeah, maria. i don't know where those two moderators were fact checking kamala harris with that lie as with so many of her other lies. i guess they were busy wrongly fact checking president trump. kamala harris' claims there are no american troops in a war zone, i bet, would come as a surprise to the thousands of troops we still have in places like iraq and syria. they're getting repeatedly hit

by mortars and drones and other attackses by iranian-backed terrorists because kamala harris and joe biden have appeased and emboldened the ayatollahs for four years. it would probably coz as a surprise to the sailors we have in the red sea who are facing the constant the threat of missile attacks from rebels and outlaws in yemen that, again, joe biden and kamala harris have turned a blind eye to, that they took off the terrorist list in their fest days of a office, that just this morning fired a ballistic missile into israel. kamala harris' lie about american troops not facing danger in war zones around the world is just one more example of why she's a weak, failed san francisco liberal who is not up to the job with of being our commander in chief. maria: senator, let me stay on foreign policy for a moment with the breaking news of the morning. the houthis say that this new hypersonic ballistic sis mill -- missile launched at israel will continue. they're vowing more attacks

going into october7th which would be one year since this started. what do you want to the say about foreign policy expectations should kamala harris win this election? >> well, i think we know what we'll get with kamala harris. it's what we got for four years with joe biden and kamala harris in office. if anything, it'll probably be worse because she's even more ideological and weaker than joe biden. but for four years, we've had war and conflict break out around the world. russia's unprovoked invasion of ukraine and hamas' slaughter of more than 1200 israelis last october, the worst attack on j jews since the holocaust, and now we have a bunch of rebels and outlaws in yemen shooting ballistic missiles at israel and our own troops in the red sea. what does a bunch of rebels and outlaws from the mountains of yemen get the missiles and the drones and the parts and the technical know-how to make these attacks? they got it from iran which has

been emboldened and appeased for four years by joe biden and kamala harris. by contrast, we know what we'll get with donald trump which is exactly what we got in his first term; a largely peaceful, stable world with no new wars. maria: you know, the open border has also created an ton for these very dangerous -- an opportunity for these very dangerous gangs. we've got this tren de aragua gang raging in new york, and the latest is these hatchet-wielding, hard-partying migrants have take over a texas hotel. we saw those horrible pictures in colorado two weeks ago where this venezuelan gang took over that apartment if complex. they're doing the same thing or efforting to do the same in texas right now. what do you want to see in terms of the border? because now kamala harris is promising to actually make a difference on the border despite the fact she's done nothing about it in the last three and a half years. >> maria, kamala harris promising to secure our border is like o.j. simpson promising to find the real killer.

we have a wide open border because of kamala harris and joe biden. she's the one that promised in her first campaign for president that she would decriminalize illegal immigration, that she would grant a mass amnesty, that she would give illegal aliens health care at tabs payer expense. -- taxpayer expense. look what we have with this wide open border. we have gang warfare breaking out in cities across america, foreign gangs taking over apartment complexes or hotels or threatening to do so. many americans are aware of the murderous rampage of the salvadoran gang ms-13. and in el salvador, they've actually gotten control of that gang because the president has cracked down on it. yet joe biden and kamala harris have allowed them to rampage across the united states, and now you have gangs from places like venezuela that some law enforcement authorities are like ms-13 on steroids. what president trump will do, again, is exactly what he did in

his first term. he will close the border, he will clack down concern crack down on illegal alien crime and begin to deport the millions of illegal aliens that kamala harris and joe biden let into this country. maria: unfortunately, we're not seeing these stories in the mainstream media, and this is very disappointing and destructive. kamala harris chose abc for an interview, and they edited down her word salad answers to the make it appear quite concise. why is it that we're not getting the true story of the status of this country on the mainstream media? >> well, the mainstream media is fully in the tank for kamala harris. they're totally united behind trying to temperature stop donald trump from returning -- to the white house. she has a record she doesn't want to talk about. to the extent she says anything, she now wants to support the border or supports fracking for oil and gas, it's not a flip-flop,, it's not a shifted

position, it's a lie. and the media goes along with it. look at what's happened in the situation in springfield, ohio, maria. you had a town of about 58,000 americans, and 20,000 haitian migrants have flooded into that town in recent years. you don't have to think that they're all bad people or even that most of them are bad people to understand the severe strain the it puts on the community of springfield. you've got haitians who don't know how to drive causing accidents all around the roads of springfield. they're flooding emergency rooms and community health centers so if your kid breaks his arm, good luck trying to find a doctor. the local schools have had to spend more than $400,000 the on haitian creole translation services alone, money that could have gone to american citizens who needed a new play ground at the elementary or needed more bus transportation for the band. these are all entirely legitimate if concerns the people of springfield have been pleading with their elected leaders in washington to address. and what does the media want to

do? the media wants to attack them, wants to tar them as racists and bigoted and nativist because of reports haitians have also been killing ducks or geese from the city pond. credible, firsthand reports that should be investigated. i don't know if they're true or not, but they shouldn't be used to dismiss all the other very legitimate concerns that the citizens of springfield have about the illegal immigration that joe biden and kamala harris have unleashed on this country. maria: yeah. and it's the an important point. we're looking to confirm all of that as well. senator, it's t great to have you morning. thank you, sir. we'll be watching your work. >> thank you, maria. maria: senator tom cotton. and if now this -- and now this --? >> we want to get back to one day of voting, we want to get back to voter id, we want to get back to paper ballots. i hear from people all over this country, we can see that day again, but we have to play the hand that we're dealt. so we're fighting every single day. maria: that was rnc co-chair

lara trump with me on "mornings with maria" on fox business on making selection integrity the republicans' top priority this election season. many individual states also prioritizing the safeguarding of the ballot box including florida and governor ron desantis who in 2022 created the office of election crimes and security and increasing penalties for ballot harvesting, strengthening id requirements for mail-in ballots and requiring yearly maintenance of voter rolls. but the biden-harris doj has been digging in with attorney general merrick garland vowing to crack down on any state that implements tougher election security measures including using an id to vote. watch. >> throughout our country's history, before bloody sunday and after, the right to vote in america has been under attack. that is why we are challenging efforts by states and jurisdictions to implement discriminatory, burdensome and

unnecessary restrictions on access to the ballot including those related to mail-in voting, the use of dropboxes and voter id requirements. maria: joining me now with the very latest is florida governor ron desantis. governor, it's great to see you this morning. thanks so much for joining us. >> good morning. maria: your reaction to what you just heard from a.g. merrick garland, and walk us through your plans to the ensure a fair election in florida. >> well, you pointed out, maria, we have banned ballot harvesting in the state of florida and imposed stiff penalties. that should be with done nationwide. of course, we require photo id in order to vote. we ban the use of zucker bucks, and we've been aggressive at policing the voter rolls so that a we have accurate voter rolls. and when people have run afoul of our election laws, this election crimes unit we've

created has referred the these people to prosecution. and you've had over 50 people just in the last couple years that have been convicted of various types of voter fraud. here's, i think, what they're trying to do, why they oppose voter id. so in the state of florida, we require voter id. we also prohibit issuing any type of photo id to illegal aliens. no driver's license, no local government ids, no private organizations are allowed to issue illegals photo id, and we don't recognize out-of-state licenses or any type of id for illegals. what that means is it's almost impossible for an illegal to register to vote. in some of these states where they do issue those id cards, they can go in and there's really no check of the citizenship that has been done. so we've been very aggressive in ensuring that only u.s. citizens are on the voter rolls. when we've identified people that have voted illegally who are not u.s. citizens, we have

brought prosecutions against them. but the democrats oppose voter id because they want there to be illegal votes. there's no other reason. i think back when i was a naval officer, maria. if you wanted to come on a navy base, you had to show your id. it didn't matter or whether you were black, white, rich, poor. it didn't matter. if you show a photo id, they know who you are, you can get in. if you don't, you wouldn't. if you were a foreigner with no id, of course they wouldn't let you in. and we see id being used in so many other aspects of american life. is so we're doing it right in florida. some other republican states, i think, are doing it right. there are some of these blue states though who do not do any of the safeguards that we're doing here in florida. maria: yeah. you've done a great job on this, and it's really important, certainly, with 51 days before the election. why is it that we continue to see these issuesesome officials in oregon admitted on friday that a data entry mistake, they claim, registered over 300

noncitizens to to vote in the state since 20 2021. the ap reported that, governor. what do you want to see from each state specifically to target that issue? >> well, all states should have policies that do not allow noncitizens to vote. and some of that, of course, illegal aliens which have been in the country by the millions under biden-harris. but also we do have people that are the foreigners here legally on a legal visa. they're following the rules, but that doesn't mean you get to vote in an american election. you have to have those safeguards in place. this ballot harvesting that has been done in some of these states, i think, is totally outrageous. now i if it's legal in a state like nevada, i think republicans have no choice but to do it ourselves. we have to fight fire with fire. but you should not have anyone allowed to the carry all these ballots and dump them into a dropbox. incidentalally, in florida we don't allow these dropboxes to be put in the middle of a city

or something. you want to send in an absentee ballot? you can send it by mail or drop it off at the elections office. that is what should be done. maria: well, you should be praised for how adamant you have been on this issue, governor, and the fact that you've got no tolerance for this voter fraud. how much confidence do you have with 51 days before election day that we will, in fact, see a safe and fair election? >> in florida i have incredibly high confidence. we had the best election in 2020. we remember all the chicanery that was going on there, it took days to count votes, sometimes even weeks. we counted, we processed 11, 12 million votes in a matter of hours in the state of florida. we've reported the results and that was that. we did even better in 2022, and we will do a good job in 2024. how these other states are going, particularly the blue states, i'm not sure. but what i do know, that the republican national committee and other conservative groups have had four years to figure this out.

so my hope is, is that they're on the ground in these states making sure that we have a very transparent process and that these votes are counted and the results are reported expeditiously. we can't be in a situation where you don't get the results for a few days. what is going on in those few days? where are these votes coming from? florida will report the results on election night, you can take that to the bank. maria: well, i'm glad you mentioned that because here's "the new york times" this weekend, by the way. harris or trump once again election results could take a while. and the new york times writes for the second straight presidential election it's becoming increasingly likely that there will be no clear and immediate winner on election night and that early returns could give a fall impression of who will ultimately prevail. what? >> it's outrageous. and the thing you have is you'll have one candidate that may have a big lead because of election day votes, and then people wake up the next morning and say, oh,

yeah, my candidate's up 6, and then they keep counting the next day and then they count more the next day, and then the lead flips. and so obviously what's going on many that period, but even if there was nothing, even if it was all on the up and up, that destroys confidence in how these elections happen. so any of those states that are doing what the new york times is saying, they are absolutely killing public trust many these elections. count the the votes on election night and report the results. maria: governor, before you go, if trump were to win, is there something that the federal government should be doing? is there a change that should happen to ensure fair elections nationally? >> well, i certainly think doing the save act which would require people to be citizens to vote and actually put teeth in that, i think the his immigration policies to the repatriate the illegals and close the border will also help because that's going to make it less likely

that those folks will be able to vote. but i do think we need to do something on a grander scale to combat the ballot harvesting. i mean, it's just ridiculous that you can go out in some of these sates -- states and get a satchel of votes and just dump them in some dropbox that. notice the way an election is supposed to be run -- that's not the way an election is supposed on run. maria: governor, thanks so much for being here this morning. >> thanks. maria: quick break and then the battle plays out on capitol hill as well as safeguarding the vote gets tangled up in plans to fund the government. congressmen bryan steil and corey mills on the end of september government deadline to keep government open and unfunded while also ensuring a secure election. and former speaker of the house newt binning rich assesses the landscape and looks at whether anything has changed after trump and harris went at it in their first and likely only debate last week. stay with us. ♪ ♪

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so-called idea of voter fraud is not real. when you actually pull this up -- maria: welcome back. that was new york democrat congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez, one of the 198 hows democrats who voted against the safeguard voter eligibility act past july which requires proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. on wednesday speaker mike johnson pulled the plug on a plan if that would have a attached the save act to the a 6-month stopgap funding bill just hours before a scheduled vote on the house floor. as congress faces a september 30th budget deadline, both the fate of government funding and election integrity are up in the air at the moment. joining me now to walk us through it is house administration chairman congressman bryan steil and florida congressman cory mills, a member of the house armed services committee. gentlemen, thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. maria: congressman mills, i want the start with you because you said you would vote no to

attaching the save act to the continuing resolution. why? >> well, because it's the exact same song and dance, maria, that we see all the time when we start to -- try to attach something that we know the senate's going to to strip out, that continues to kick the can of irresponsibility. if we pass the save act, we're going to end up spending $6.3 billion a year, or $3 billion in interest payments, $77,000 per second driving up our debt which is already over $36 trillion. and, by the way, as i mentioned previously, we're going to spend more in servicing the interest payments on our debt than on our entire national defense annual spending. plus, the c.r. will not allow new programs of record which hurts our military and defense. so the whole thing is we've had two years, we've passed about 73 of appropriations so far, there's about 27% that's left. i'm not going to continue to do the same song and dance. if the senate is not going to take up the save act which, by the way, passed july 10th of

2024, they're not going to take up h.r. 2 to secure our borders, then what are we doing? we told the american people we were going to secure the borders and get inflation under control. adding more debt causes more dollars to be present printed and the middle class and lower class will get wiped out. so i'm going to the take the responsibility shut the border and government down and protect our elections. maria: why are you afraid to shut down the government, bryan steilsome. >> i don't think anybody should be afraid of a shutdown. what we should do is pass the c.r. with the save act over to the senate and put it in their lap. this democratic-run senate refuses to secure the border and bring up h.r. 2, they refuse to secure the u.s. election and bring up the save act what we need to do is attach the save act to the c.r.s, the last train leaving the station, put it in the lap of the senate and force them not only to keep the government open until we can win in this election and come and get our spending in line with president trump, but also have an ton to secure the u.s -- an opportunity to the secure the u.s. election.

papaing the c.r -- passing the c.r. with the save act is our opportunity to win and secure the election. maria: but mike johnson, the speaker, just pulled it. he didn't have the support. and one of the reasons is cory mills who said he's not going to sign it, he's not going to vote for it. what do you do? >> i think we have an opportunity when we come back next week to actually pit on the floor. i think we have an opportunity to put the legislation that the speaker has -- to pass the legislation that the speaker has put forward such that we have an opportunity to get our intending in line in washington d.c. people are frustrated with the democratic-run senate, and this is our opportunity in this election to actually get republicans in the senate that we can work with and get our country back on track. maria: cory mills, you're nodding your head. chuck schumer said he's not going to to bring the save act to the floor, period. >> well, that's exactly right. if we cared so much about election sphwegty, why didn't we attach it to the previous five c c.r.s that it passed?

if it works so well to attach a policy rider, why didn't we attach the low cost energy act to economic growth strategy? why didn't we attach the raines act to stop overregulation of private sector businesses, attach h.r. 2 to one of the international policy for if for-upping billsesome if it's the same song and dance that they've attempted 5-7 times, it never is the same. and as thomas massie said, we always get a c.r. in september, they try to cram an omnibus in december. i didn't run for congress to do the status quo, so i'm going to fight for the american people, and i'm not going to continue to drive our debt over the cliff. maria: look, this is the last budget fight you're going to have before the election, okay? you just said, cory mills, you are willing to shut the government down to make this point. bryan steil, are you willing to shut down the government? >> i think all republicans willing to bring it to that point, to shut the government down if we had to. but here we have an opportunity

to to actually avoid that, to get the c.r. through a so that we can get to the other side with republicans in control to get spending under control and at the same time secure our election with the save act. maria: well, hold on, that's not true -- >> -- americans are voting in u.s. elections. maria: that's not true because you just saw that chuck schumer will not bring it to the floor. no matter how much you say you're going to put it on his lap, so are you willing to take this to the mat and let the government shut down unless they put the save act attached to the c.r.? >> i think the entire house republican house conference is -- conference is ready to go to the mat. maria: you think it's going to come to the house floor this upcoming week? >> that's a decision ultimately for the speaker. i'm reasonably confident we'll have the votes. maria: so you're committed to make sure do -- to attach the save act to the c.r., and if not, shut down the government? is that what you're saying, bryan steil? >> yeah. i think the speaker's play call to attach the save act to the

c.r. and to jam it to the senate and put it in the senate's lap is the right play call. i think he'll, ultimately, have an opportunity to bring it to the floor, and i think at the end of the day we'll pass it because the american people want to see us secure the election and force the senate to act on it. >> we've already passed the save act july 10th, and i would argue if we truly cared about election integrity, bryan steil had a better bill, in my opinion. that would is have given us enough time to actually pass and implement it. now we want to act like we care about election integrity 120 days out? what about h.r. 2 or the 19 months that we dumped on the senate's lap? what about h.r. 3-z 1 that we didn't even transfer, h.r. 5, the represent thal -- parental rights, bill? the point is -- maria: all right. >> -- i'm not going to continue to play the same game. maria: all right, congressmen. you've got a big week ahead. bryan steil, cory mills, thank you, gentlemen. critics call out abc news'

debate moderators for failing to fact check vice president. kamala harris during that presidential debate last week, and a former clinton adviser wants an internal investigation at abc into whether that debate was rigged. newt gingrich on the race, the debate and what exactly changed after the trump-harris standoff. also a look at former president trump's proposal to eliminate taxes on overtime hours. all coming up right here. stay with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ citi's industry leading global payments solutions help their clients move money around the world seamlessly in over 180 countries... and help a partner like the world food programme as they provide more than food to people in need. together, citi and the world food programme empower families across the globe.

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going to do that that, all these wonderful thingses. why hasn't she done it? she's been there for three and a half years. maria: and former president trump and vice president kamala harris on the dedo bait stage last tuesday night in philadelphia as abc news moderators david muir and lindsay davis are coming under fire over their performance which critics say was tilted in favor of harris. former pollster mark penn is calling on abc news to hire an independent investigator to the look into internal communications between the network and the harris campaign telling reporter john solomon, quote, to find out to what extent they were planning on, in effect, fact checking just one outcome. i think the situation commands nothing less than that, says mark penn. ark bc news has denied any wrongdoing. joining me now is the former speaker of the house and fox news contributor, newt gingrich. mr. speaker, thanks for being here. always a pleasure.

>> good to be with you. maria: i want to get your take on what really changed after that debate and whether or not you believe the gop has done enough to ensure a fair and safe election in november. >> well, look, i think something like the safe act ought to be passed. i think it should tell people a lot that 198 house democrats voted no on blocking illegal immigrants from voting in federal elections. so in that sense, i do worry. and when you read about places like springfield which has 20,000 immigrants in a town of about 60-70,000, you have to say what is the possibility that some of them are going to vote? if you look at a place like minnesota where governor walz made it possible for illegal immigrants to get a driver's license, to get medicaid and to get paid funding at the university, you have to wonder how many of those with driver's licenses might happen to show up at the polls.

so i do think there's a legitimate concern about illegal immigrants voting, and and i do think something like the save act continuing pressure and communicating with people that it is illegal to to vote if you're not an american citizen. maria: well, what's your reaction to the debate we just had with representatives bryan steil and cory mills? >> well, my advice would be to cut the continuing resolution into two parts. i think we should get mt. habit -- in the habit the national security budget get passed once a year for the entire year because we're helping the chinese communists. when we pass these c.r.s, we screw up the pentagon substantially. we make it more expensive, less effective, almost impossible to have long-term development of programs. secretary austin has been very clear about this, and while i often disagree with him, i think his statement on the importance of annual funding is exactly

right. and everybody who says that they're worried about china ought a to vote to have two separate bills. let's fight over domestic spending all we want to, but national security spending should be in a single bill and should be passed once a year for the entire with year. i mean, that's my view. and that's my advice to speaker johnson, break the bill into two parts. maria: especially since china is on the march, communist china the has been investing in its military and so much so that their navy is larger than the u.s. navy. >> right now, frankly, the congressional process in both parties makes it harder for us to compete with china which is a truly self-destructive and stupid position. maria: mr. speaker, give us your assessment of the landscape right now 51 days before election day. what changed after that debate last week? >> well, first of all, i thought the abc news-kamala harris tag

team do did a pretty decent job of it was three on one. i think she probably did well on style. she did terribly on substance. and every poll shows that. even cnn showed that president trump was stronger on the economy after the debate than before the debate. and i think in that sense she did not gain any ground, she probably lost ground. and this race is coming down, i think, to the very simple set of questions. were you better off under trump than you are under biden, do you believe that harris is capable of being commander in chief, do you think that her values are too radical, and when you meet tim walz -- who was legitimately called cam upon tim because he's so far to the left he's almost whacko, and picking him, it seemed to me, pushes her or further away from normal americans. so this is trump's, i think, to win.

i think he has a real chance to win it. he came out of the debate stronger than when he went in, and it was ironic, i've written several columns now about the fact that the elites don't get it. trump was winning. they liked kamala's style, the american people like trump's substance, and substance beats style when you're picking a president. maria: mr. speaker, before you go, how serious is this issue of communist china buying u.s. politicians? over and over again we're seeing stories -- >> very. maria: dianne feinstein, eric swalwell, governor of new york with aides that are tied to the communist party of china. >> it is an extraordinarily serious problem. at its peak, the soviet union had 500 agents of influence in the united states including one who was as high as undersecretary of state. these are real problems. you have to have a very aggressive counterintelligence program, and you have to recognize that china is trying

to defeat the united states. maria: yeah. >> this is -- they are for all practical purposes psychological hi and politicallyly at war with us even hoe it's not a physical war. -- then and we need to behave accordingly. maria: which is why we highlight the admiration tim walz has had for communist china which is incredibly disturbing. mr. speaker, thank you, sir. stay with us, we'll be right back. >> thank you. ♪on ♪ abuilt-in engine, like google, but it's r and doesn't spy on your searchs and duckduckgo lets you browsel but it blocks cookies and creepy ads that follow youa and other companies. and there's no catch. it's fre. we make money from ads, but they don't follow you aroud join the millions of people taking back their privacy by downloading duckduckgo on all your devices today. we really don't want people to think of feeding food

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maria: welcome back. in just 16 days, new york will be the site for the vice presidential debate between ohio senator j.d. vance and minnesota governor tim walz happening on october 1st. walz's record as governor of the north star state will be under scrutiny including his decision the wait three days before coming in the national guard during the summer riots of 2020 the which caused half a billion in property damage. walz has been at the forefront in enticing people to cross the

nation's borders illegally and come to minnesota, granting access to illegal immigrants for free college, subsidized health care and driver's licenses paid for by minnesota's taxpayers. and in one of his first executive orders as governor, walz established a council focused on dei. joining me now is -- with a firsthand account of the impact is former longtime nfl sideline reporter michele tafoya who has been a resident of minnesota now for three decades. great to see you, thank you so much for being here. >> it's good to be with you. i wish i had better news. [laughter] maria: well, tell us about it, because you've lived in minnesota for 30 years. what can you tell us about governor tim walz? >> since the time he took office, minnesota has changed dramatically from the state i moved into when i moved here in 1994. we can start with education. and this correlates to the his taking office. we are spending more per cap tasker per student -- per capita, and the test scores are

terrible. we now only have 50 president of our kids that can read and do math at grade level. now, as the mother of two and the daughter of a former public schoolteacher, that is incredibly disheartening. we have dropped in terms of our educational standards. number go, gdp per capita is down. crime is up. minnesota used to be a state that dragged -- bragged about the fact that its crime rates were lower than the national average. guess what? today we are above the national average. the police here, i work with them a lot, and they are so demoralized and so -- they feel that their hands are tied from doing their jobs. energy prices have skyrocketed. and i think the biggest thing you can see is net migration has been negative. more people are moving out of minnesota than are moving in, particularly in the top furor -- four or five income brackets. those people are leaving. and a lot of those people are my friends, and they were minnesota lifers. they can't do it anymore.

it's sad to watch. maria: i want to get your take on what being a sanctuary city has meant to citizens because tim walz has had and has sort of encouraged an open border and welcomed people to come to minnesota. >> yeah. like i said, this has translated in the crime rates. we have voters here that feel very unsure as to whether or not their vote actually matters. we don't know about election integrity here in minnesota because of some of those stances of his. it's an overall, i think, safety issue. and the number one job of the federal government and of any local government or state the government is to protect the people of its, of their country, of the communities of the state. maria: okay. >> public safety is down. maria: of course. and yet he says the other day, tim walz said americans are better off today than four years ago. we're going to talk about that when we come right back. more with michele tafoya coming up. stay with us.

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maria: welcome back. i am back with former nf if l sideline reporter michele tafoya. you've been talking about tim walz's minnesota. i just wanted the say that rfk jr. and tulsi gabbard have been lasting -- blasting democrats as the party of censorship while

stumping for trump in arizona this weekend, and yet just recently when tim walz was on a radio show, he said that, yeah, americans are economically better off than four years ago. your reaction. >> i don't know how he can say it. by what metric is he looking? does he not buy gasolinesome does he not go to the grocery store? does he not keep track of energy prices in his own state of minnesota? economically we are not better than four years ago, we are far if worse. inflation is higher. child poverty is at a 5-year high. this man are say anything -- will say anything. i would just call him a wolf in sheep's clothing, maria. maria: and do you expect those policies that you've witnessed in minnesota to be his policies should he get to the white house? >> i wouldn't see why not. i mean, her values, she says, hasn't changed. i can't imagine why tim walz's values would change either. maria: uh-huh. and in terms of the values, the most important, you say, have been economic.

>> absolutely. if economic, education, lifestyle, public safety. it's as simple as that, maria. maria: great to have you this morning, thank you. former nfl sideline reporter michele tafoya. i'm maria bart row, and i'll see you tomorrow 6-9 a.m. eastern on fommunx business. have a great sunday, everybody. evan, my guy! you're helping them with savings, right? (♪) i wish i had someone like evan when i started. somebody just got their first debit card! ice cream on you? ooo, tacos! i got you. wait hold on, don't you owe me money? what?! your money is a part of your community, so your bank should be too. like, chase! choice hotels is a family of brands with a hotel for any traveler you want to be... like quality inn, for the dad that gets every dollar and minute outta this family road trip! the day is upon us!

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